welcome to the lone show where i get the real headlines with none of the mercy i can live in washington d.c. now it's able speak to an experiment of the young turks about jane quakers and parcher from m s n b c i'll ask if the future of the media will be online then eighty percent of americans are now dissatisfied or angry with the government so how much more can they take jane hamsher of firedoglake will help us answer that question and if you like our story on the jail t.v. just one of many ways to a military projects wait until you hear about the navy's littoral combat ships

we'll have all of that for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to make. now the world watched rupert murdoch and his son james testifying before the british parliament this week there are a lot of questions to be raised about what murdoch did and did not know about the hacking the ethics of the companies under his belt and whether or not he's even fit to run those companies he really doesn't know anything but unfortunately it's somebody had to try and pipe rupert and well he got to use that as a big distraction. so now when the pieing attempt was made a set of moving on continue to talk about the possible repercussions of this scandal for journalism for the murdoch media empire all eyes instead turn to rupert's wife wendy de charging with claws drawn to protect her man. q.

days after her doc appeared before members of parliament much of the continuing buzz about his younger feisty wife it's the speed of the war we it's no longer windy the so-called gold digger voters some of the. crowd. he didn't target. the oh so easily distracted mainstream media immediately flip their gaze to talking about and creating buzz over crouching wendy hidden tiger as they have now decided to call her and in this case we're going to a specific thing or at c.n.n. to fox news is obviously ignoring the whole story but c.n.n. has gotten full force not only are they monitoring chinese blogs and even to look to the taiwanese animation makers to create an entire package about tiger's twenty . the ultimate target white house to thank you and. these monthly blogs are going to build no one slept for windy one don't go blow the

pride asian women nothing comes between the slack. and. you're kidding me right c.n.n. if you do this story just feel have to talk about the sad state of journalism these days something which includes yourselves but then again why wouldn't you take a chance to rip on murdoch and fox and all the other organizations that put under that news corp umbrella there is so much meat to this story and yet you choose to spend your time coming up with names for rupert murdoch's wife i mean it's it's honestly unbelievable how about insuring your gaze to what's been going on in california now we reported to you about the massive prison hunger strike that's been going on and today in its fourth week to finally came to an end more than six thousand prisoners were taking part state why more than four hundred mates have been refusing food for four weeks and prison officials said that they were monitoring forty nine inmates with last ten pounds each some of them could no longer even keep water down and they were doing this to shine light on solitary

confinement which many amount of torture and which is rampant in our prisons they were doing this to highlight the inhumane conditions in prisons in this country and some said that they were even willing to die for it. but today thankfully before anyone's health deteriorated to the point of no return to prison hunger strike they've come to an end but i wouldn't call this a win rather than see an end to solitary confinement they ended their strike in exchange for cold weather caps wall calendars and some educational opportunities that is all the department of corrections and rehabilitation was willing to give them and yet the inhumane treatment of many prisoners continues on then yes that is something that the mainstream media is happiness. well after a few days of rumors swirling a last night it became official of the young turks who had been hosting the six pm time slot and as n.b.c.

was out after talks it was jake's poor ratings that may have been behind the move thanks mr that argument to shreds last night he revealed not only that his ratings were lower than good but the m.s.m. b.c. president phil griffin had called him into a meeting and said the quote people in washington didn't like his tell and then he said this. and then he gives me the second part of the speech hallucinogenic outsiders recall and then we're thinking well this is something where you were little jack and say what ride bikes i think i'm an outsider i don't write boy but i would terrible leather jacket. he said i love to be an outsider outsiders are cool but we're not we're insiders we are two steps. so there you have it the mainstream corporate establishment media admitting they are in fact not government launched dogs but are the establishment but how long can the mainstream media really survive with that kind of attitude and is new media like the young turks the

way of the future or earlier i caught up with an experiment host of the young turks university and an i often talk about the mainstream media its failure to question the government but i first asked her how she felt now that m.s.n. b.c. actually referred to itself as the establishment. i think that it's discouraging and referring to yourself as the establishment i think really puts your own outlet in jeopardy because people who watch the news people who want the news are not looking for the establishment they're looking for factual evidence they're looking for something that they need to know to be informed in order to participate in what the united states is known for a democracy you know i think that giving people thoughts information or misleading information or not giving them the full story is horrible because in order for it's of ocracy to work the public needs to be informed and i think that people will kind of look at this situation that's happening now you know with m s n b c with fox

news and i think that it's going to really make them question the sources that they get the news from and it's not a good thing to refer to yourself as the establishment i think that it's something that you should probably look at and try to fix now it's definitely not a good thing and stepping on something you want to be called out on either which jane did i know that you don't want to speak on his behalf obviously we're going to try to speak to him later on in the week but how do you think he's been handling the whole thing you know what is he told you in terms of his emotions towards m.s. n.b.c. now. you know jake is a very open minded person and he one thing that i want to clarify is he's definitely not disgruntled or angry or you know he's very factual about what's happened i mean from his perspective he's not you know going out he's not putting anyone down he's definitely not you know. talking about the hosts at m.s.n. b.c.

i think that he's handled the situation very well and i would definitely tell people to ignore the sensationalism regarding the story i see a lot of sensationalism that is really their focus on the heart of the matter the meat of the story i think that there's an important lesson to learn from it i don't think there's an important lesson to be learned and part of that is that even though. you still have the young turks and that's become an incredibly popular show online so clearly there is an audience there tell us how many hits you get a day now is it up to a million hits a day. you know this is the most fascinating aspect of the story in my opinion because the young turks is hosted by and he is very tough on politicians he's very tough on some of the guests that we have on the show and the media would probably guess that since he's so hard i'm guess we have a hard time booking people or we have a hard time keeping an audience but that's not the case at all we have

a million hits a day on you tube alone ok that's not a made up number it's very easy to go to our you tube channel youtube dot com slash the young turks look at the number of hits on each each video look at the number of hits we have we have over. five hundred million total hits on our channel alone half a billion i mean it's incredible so i think that it shows you that non mainstream media can be very successful because people are starting to realize that they have other sources for their news they don't have to depend on mainstream media and i think the public is starting to hold the mainstream media accountable we have something called the internet now where you can go on there you can check the sources you can check the facts you can you know get the full story and because of that the public is able to hold the media accountable and we have audience members that hold us accountable on a daily basis if we don't report them. full story they call us out on it and what

do we do we go on the show the next day and we say ok you know we missed this aspect of the story we're going to share with you now we have politicians on the show that disagree with all the time and what it can do he has a healthy debate with them ok but he doesn't allow them to come on there and share their talking points and say whatever they want and then you know leave why would we do that why would we be used as a tool for a politician's talking point that doesn't make any sense the audience sees that and they love it so how do you see this playing out in terms of obviously the success of young turks alternative media new media i guess you could say do you think that there could be another network created that the young turks are something that could be put on t.v. and go out to a broader audience or is t.v. dead do you not even need it anymore because you have the internet. i think t.v. whether people want to believe it or not is headed in the same direction that print media is already experiencing now and it's because new generations are not

interested in coming home at a specific period of time to watch the news you know they don't base their schedules around programming on television you have the internet now where everything is on demand and with the internet there's a lot less century censorship so you get this very raw and news coverage and even rob programming on you know on other topics without having to worry about scheduling without having to worry about whether or not it's going to be on demand i think that you know the internet is taking over so many different industries and the news industry is just one of them and i think that's why the young turks has been successful and i think that's why you see all of these alternative media outlets popping up all over the all over the place online i mean to be honest with you keep just to give you one example tosh point zero is a wildly successful television show but why is that wildly successful because of content that he finds online online content is not something that can be compared to television but do you still think because it was

a wildly successful television show do you still think that television is that ultimate goal to reach or is the internet really the wave of the future where you can stay and be happy there. right now i think that most people think that television is the ultimate goal but that mindset is slowly changing and i think that it's slowly changes with each generation so for the moment being people might think ok television is where it's at if you're on t.v. you're the real deal and we should take you seriously but i think that mindset is slowly but surely changing our animal thank you so much for joining us of course this is a story that i think everybody who follows the media who has constantly been discouraged by the mainstream media at least find a little hope in this that jane told them the first for themselves thanks so much. thank you. well coming up tonight the debate over raising the debt ceiling has left most people in the u.s.

mad at washington eighty per cent of people in fact so how much more can americans really take for as jane hamsher the founder of firedoglake dot com the. lead. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you hear see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. of. the early. release and you know. fuck fuck fuck.

fuck. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right leg i think iraq. well. whenever the government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because your freedom.

well as washington continues to battle over the debt ceiling and word it by now is that president obama might even accept a short term extension as a way on capitol hill to ask what the american people think about their grand standing in all of this reckless behavior and i can tell you that a new a.b.c. washington post poll has that answer turns out that eighty percent of poll respondents say that they feel dissatisfied or even angry about the work that the government is doing eighty percent and that's the highest level that we've seen in anger in nineteen years and you can bet that it has to do with the debt ceiling to that number has gone up eleven points just in the past month and the picture is especially bad for republicans a poll showing that seventy seven percent of respondents think the republican leadership is unwilling to negotiate and is slowing down those talks it isn't fair

to put all the anger only republicans in the fair to say this is only about the debt ceiling maybe americans should be more angry at the president purcel ing them out when it comes to social security medicaid and medicare join me to discuss this is jane hamsher founder of firedoglake dot com jane thanks so much nice to have you back on the show tonight thanks for having me now eighty percent of americans according to this poll are dissatisfied and angry with the government that's a really large percentage would you think of a well deserved well deserved anger. well if you look at the employment numbers i mean the jobless claims are up against a day i think that what you're seeing is is anger at the government for underlying factors that just really haven't been satisfactorily addressed and then on the news what people are seeing is this game over the debt ceiling limit completely routine vote that's been taken seven times under george bush with absolutely no problem at all and i think that there is a justifiable frustration so i think that there are other factors that are out

there and depending on just in this particular debate we're talking about other factors here that americans are going to angry about will get into the president in just a moment but even with republicans what happened to jobs right are americans has been completely ignored they're being taken out of the picture here well that's the crazy thing is that they're all focused on this deficit this really sort of artificial accounting function and nobody's talking about jobs i mean there's a real serious unemployment problem and that seems to have taken a backseat can see an ism you know spending to people to work f.d.r. the thing that you know we as americans have really embraced sense that it's the great depression it seems to have been thrown out the window and we're developing nobody ourselves so this austerity program that quite frankly threatens to put more people out of work you know you've got senators like mark warner democrats who are sending us e-mails around saying that you know cutting the deficit is the way to put more americans to work people who police that. but that's what the debate

national debate is focused on right now all the data is on what i have focused on austerity and of course on the other hand the debate has now circled around not raising taxes by any being any means it's a no go and so much of this centers around grover norquist and i'm just a little confused i don't know maybe if you can explain it to me why grover norquist is treated like a messiah that everything he says is the decree the law of the land or publicans is using have to hide behind. that's a really good question you know i don't know why or how to answer that except to say that john walker who writes for a blog very good post about how not raising taxes really is the republican brand right now it's the only appeal that they have to non social conservatives. and the republican ranks are very small if you go to if you sort of boil it down to the people who hate gays and abortion i'm so sort of the there are no new taxes has a real direct appeal to people who might not be socially conservative but you know

are very caring very much about what their tax rate is so that is the republican brand and figured out a way to kind of codify that in a very. i would say formal way he has these members of congress sign a pledge he has two people present when they sign it it's kept you know like a fireproof vault and he's taken people out who didn't respect it you know tom de lay and the republicans when george bush won style they really took over the party and enforced party discipline along those lines so grover became the sort of oracle of delphi but grover today came out and said letting the bush tax cuts expire he would not consider a tax increase so you know he's capable of throwing a curve ball and at night what flopped on that if you take us out for get that he said he was misquoted. he walked it back but he walked back to being the other day to where he endorsed mcconnell the and i think that's sort of the way they're not white house did it you know. today as well it's called the yoyo you know you get it

out there but then you deny it so if anybody tries to call you on it it's a pretty familiar tactic he's not that unconscious he doesn't speak not carefully so he definitely had a purpose in putting out there i just don't know what it is however talking about the republican brand right now being not cutting taxes but about the democratic brand right isn't part of that brand entitlement programs social security medicare medicaid keeping that safe for the american people i think you have our own president that's now saying that he's willing to throw that all into the deal and in fact that's what he wants to do is turn his back on all the people that elected him. that's the crazy thing is that he's not true to the deal because mcconnell operating in a clean debt ceiling vote with no cuts necessary it was obama who wanted to put the cuts in he's very much wanted to address it head on cuts as he calls them ever since he took office from his very first school sign actual senate where he was going to have pete peterson be the keynote speaker and he really does believe that this is important so it is i think it is people realizing it realize that what's

happening it's about a crisis in the democratic party because you've got a democratic president who wants to cut the social safety net you know social security and medicare does not believe in deficit spending in economics to put people to work in stimulus and you know to the extent that he did it was largely tax cuts you know it was a very small program and it wasn't sufficient to bring down unemployment a let's finally let's say that that has something to do with the anger right let's go back to this eighty percent of americans are angry and you think that you know if you got up or anywhere else that means people would be on the streets they'd be rioting and we don't see any of that how come there are no repercussions and i know that on your website you've been collecting signatures but still you know it one website is that enough. well you know i think that it's still a matter people don't quite believe it you know you have sort of varying degree of people who pay attention to what's going on and most people don't really believe that. this is going to happen because every time you know it's it becomes

abundantly clear this is what obama wants to do to people who are watching closely you know jay carney comes out and says oh no that's not what he wants people believe it at some point people are going to come to terms with that this is the fact of what he wants to do now they may decide that he has a lot of wants to do it's good for the democratic party and it's good for them i don't know i have a feeling that's not going to be what happens because it's people even today when the trial balloon went out saying obama agreed to all tax cuts and no tax increases it was clear that i was coming i mean the republicans are going to do anything else that obama wants to the people were really angry about it so i think you're seeing a growing consciousness and i think that there will be a backlash whether they'll go out in the streets or not i don't know all i'd like to see i would like to see more of that growing consciousness and the backlash and personally i think that we can blame so far media for that. show the other night where we have these liberal suppose of left leaning talking heads only want to point fingers at the republicans and that aren't willing to point the finger back

at their own party and their own leadership and i guess that's maybe part of the whole stablish mentioned media thing that we've seen going on especially with all this talk of. departing from. i j i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight thanks for having me. all right. is it speaking of banks bankers people who don't seem to be stressing out about the whole debt ceiling debacle might be because their pockets and their social lives are thriving these tough financial times so it's been reported that high end prostitution ring in brooklyn new york has been busted after police have been attempting to shut down that business for the past two years and i say hi and i'm not exaggerating here so the clientele paid up to thirty six hundred dollars an hour and police are now giving details that a few people even shelled out ten thousand dollars for a whole night's worth of entertainment and who are these people exactly because there's real interest in this story from the financial markets many cruel and i've

heard from people people with nothing but money the company now the indictment also says how many of these very select high end escorts also brought drugs like cocaine for their scheduled meet ups with their clients that's the life of a fat cat banker or a car during the day to protect the precious stock market go out and party at night with strippers and coke you know it must be nice to live in a bubble where you can just buy the finest drugs the most beautiful women all the rest of america suffers but even more nice is when you have the ability to buy yourself out of trouble with a fancy lawyer as i'm sure most of the wall street clientele will do if they ever get caught and this is a perfect example of what we've been saying for a long time on this show the disconnect between wall street and the rest of the country all the bankers throw down thousands of dollars to choose who their lady will be for the evening regular americans are struggling to stay afloat millions of that are losing their homes it's a disgusting yet very worthwhile reminder of wall street's priorities so now let's take a look at life on the other side. newark new jersey is just miles away from the big

apple but these days it feels like a completely different world with twenty five percent of the city's population living in poverty violence is also now on the rise and with layoffs impeding efforts of law enforcement to stop crime many will simply hopeless as they see it you're going to take says takes us to the streets of real america. homes abandoned and haunted by poverty crime and uncertainty about tomorrow business is long out of luck on desolate streets all in the big apple's backyard just a quick ride from manhattan i feel like we're living in a. kind of a bad dream where everybody has amnesia i mean here's newark living in the shadow of wall street the reason newark is facing budget cuts is because i will crash that was created manufactured distributed by wall street new jersey's largest city

seeing unemployment at around ten percent nearly one in four families are living below the poverty line. from suarez a school bus driver at twenty eight he has little hope for the future that's really nobody. even while trying to get as they say. they need to try back problem to go back to the same school new work is notoriously crime ridden despite this hard truth thirteen percent of the police force have been laid off due to a budget crisis high ranking officials in the police department resisted pay cuts so jobs went out the window they voted for layoffs and so they kept their salaries but a lot of new york had to shrink its police force and murders went up by more than fifty percent compared to the same period last year as a result with locals protecting themselves the best way they know how like harry and ron are. probably in my. room shooting stabbings broad breeze and

carjackings are a big part of life in new york this is a right. chad we'll. have is why all. throughout the city drug gang rivalry is a major cause of violence locals tell us that this is one of many areas in new york where people come to buy and sell drugs crime. has become such a big part of daily life here that much of the unlawful noise goes unnoticed and under reported on the d r t was in the city several shootings took place one person died over a dozen were wounded some see the situation is so out of control that the few police officers still on payroll just start trying to say. the same. thing for the story. so just my opinion says priorities have to change in newark he wants to leave the town and move away from all the drama if somebody like a good. job or. try

to act well behaved with. the people they'd be ready to go off the streets. and increase in crime isn't the only result of service carts edward hernando's works in a pantry that has run out of funding it can't provide food to those in need anymore we've been told for years that in about two years we should be out of this recession and then the period here we continue seeing in about two more years we should be out of this recession. i waste at this level it doesn't seem right it's changing it is getting worse as shelters experience hits to their budgets homelessness is visible in the city but those that cost the financial have moved on people are forgetting that the financial crisis actually caused the cutbacks that we're facing day to day and a place like new york having to suffer more is really a crime that's the crime. decades ago you work was booming but this is no longer

and not likely to change without a shift in political will. that the pilot says no it will be with this post to do with governor christie four more example he doesn't really. do one thing but he does talk of the opposite this is madison avenue in new york. and this is madison avenue in. newark across the river from the big apple the city is barely staying afloat and archie newark new jersey. well still to come tonight we have our thursday edition of show and tell and then another example of your tax dollars being wasted on bloated defense projects tonight we turn the spotlight on the liberal combat ship program and ask all the billions being spent on these ships really worth. you know some good to see the story of a scene so. you think you understand it and then you know.